Lance R. Collins and Charles McCabe Join 京东影业影视传媒 Board of Trustees
WASHINGTON D.C. 鈥 The 京东影业影视传媒 is excited to announce that Lance R. Collins, Vice President and Executive Director of the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus and Charles McCabe, Chief Advisor for the Manifold Fund, have joined the Society鈥檚 Board of Trustees.
鈥淚 am pleased to welcome Lance and Charles to our Board of Trustees,鈥 said Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of the 京东影业影视传媒 and Publisher of Science News. 鈥淭heir diverse expertise and insight they bring to our organization, coupled with their deep commitment to the Society鈥檚 mission, will make them invaluable additions to our Board of Trustees.鈥
Collins previously served as the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at Cornell University from 2010-2020 and the S. C. Thomas Sze Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from 2005-2010. In 2021 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Collins graduated from Princeton University and holds a M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, all in chemical engineering.
On joining the Board of Trustees, Collins said, 鈥淚 plan to dedicate my time to increasing access to the Society for girls and underrepresented minority students, who historically have not participated in 京东影业影视传媒 at the levels they could if given the opportunity.鈥
Charles McCabe, Chief Advisor for the Manifold Fund, is the great-grandson of E.W. Scripps, who founded the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, the United Press wire service and, along with William Emerson Ritter, the 京东影业影视传媒 (originally known as Science Service). McCabe has also served as a Systems Engineer for the American Broadcasting Company and has held various leadership roles within the Scripps Family Group.
鈥淢y mom was a writer and editor for the Science News-Letter [now Science News] in the 1950s and 鈥60s, so Science News has always been part of my environment,鈥 said McCabe. 鈥淭he fresh and lively style of the magazine drew me into every article and gave me some degree of understanding of the physical world we live in. It is my honor to join the trustees in every effort to ensure centuries of future issues!鈥
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